A Democrat running to be Ohio’s attorney general promised to kill President Donald Trump if he wins the November election.
Elliot Forhan, a former state representative and current attorney general candidate, posted a plan outlining how he would “kill Donald Trump.”
“I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump,” Forhan said in a video. “I mean I’m going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment. That is what I mean when I say I am going to kill Donald Trump.”
Trump narrowly survived his first assassination attempt on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. The president was again targeted just weeks later while golfing in Palm Beach, Florida.
Notably, Forhan responded to the political assassination of Charlie Kirk by posting “Fuck Charlie Kirk.”
Forhan’s comments — disturbing as they are — are par for the course for Democrats.
Just this past November, Virginians willingly elected Jay Jones to serve as the state’s attorney general despite him fantasizing in a 2022 exchange with a colleague about killing former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
“Three people, two bullets. [Republican House Speaker Todd] Gilbert, [H]itler, and [P]ol [P]ot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones said.
Jones also reportedly suggested that he wished Gilbert’s wife “could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views,” as the National Review reported.
When Jones’ colleague later pushed back, Jones only doubled down.
“Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy,” he wrote in a message. “I mean do I think Todd and Jennifer [Gilbert’s wife] are evil? And that they’re breeding little fascists? Yes.”
More than 1.7 million Virginians voted for Jones despite his assassination fantasies.
